Grid Modernization News

Aug 19, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

One of the largest impediments to the mass adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the United States is range anxiety--or, consumers' fear that they will be stranded because the vehicle has insufficient battery power to get them to their destination. A 2012 NREL collaboration with General Motors (GM) continues to inform the improvement of industry apps that help allay range anxiety and increase driver freedom.

Aug 18, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

A new paper reports a cell efficiency of 20.8%, representing a crossing point for the new group V technology relative to historic copper technology.

Aug 18, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

The brothers both previously worked at NREL, although the older one is now a university professor in Wisconsin.

Aug 15, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL researchers believe wind plant operators can increase energy capture using plant-level controls. By steering individual turbine wakes away from downstream turbines, existing facilities can achieve annual energy production gains of 1%-2% depending on the plant size and design.

Aug 14, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

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Aug 12, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL's Geothermal Laboratory Program Manager Kate Young and Operations Manager Caity Smith are members of the U.S. team selected as the new global chair of Women in Geothermal (WING), an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the education, professional development, and advancement of women in the geothermal industry.

Aug 11, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

Cross-Discipline Team Envisions the Grid of the Future

Aug 8, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

Cara Lubner's research focuses on a novel method organisms use to generate energy, called flavin-based electron bifurcation. How this works was a mystery until Lubner and other researchers at NREL discovered the secret.

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

Balancing the needs of food, water, and energy is becoming one of the most important trends in sustainability strategy, and we talked with one of its experts, Jennifer Daw, the group manager of strategy, policy, and implantation within NREL’s Integrated Application Center.

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL has released a 2019 update to the Annual Technology Baseline, a key source of reliable electricity generation technology cost and performance data used to support and inform electric sector analysis in the United States.

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

Nitride semiconductors have played an important role in certain technologies, such as light-emitting diodes and radio frequency transistors, but these materials aren't found in nature.

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by Wayne Hicks

NREL researchers are creating useful software applications designed to help highlight potential costs and savings associated with renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. In doing so, they hope to shorten the path to commercialization and increase overall adoption of those technologies.

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

The research will attempt to solve the mystery of what really happens when white-rot fungi -- the best lignin degraders in nature -- meet lignin.

Jul 31, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

The three were among 70 other researchers from institutions across the country named in an announcement made by the Office of Science.

Jul 30, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL's Chuck Booten shares how managing rental properties changed the way he thinks about buildings research and entrepreneurship.

Jul 30, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

A new NREL report, The Wind Energy Workforce in the United States: Training, Hiring, and Future Needs, assesses the national wind energy workforce and the hiring needs of the industry, along with the educational programs that are preparing students for work in the wind industry.

Jul 25, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

The newly published research in Nature Communications details how the NREL researchers refined the D-HVPE process to produce solar cells more than 20 times faster than the process now commonly used.

Jul 25, 2019, 18:00 by User Not Found

Earlier this month, NREL hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop to evaluate the growing potential for cybersecurity vulnerabilities on U.S. wind farms. The workshop, "Assessing the Impact of Cybersecurity on the Nation's Wind Farms," brought together the expertise of researchers across the national lab complex, the wind energy industry, original equipment manufacturers, cybersecurity product vendors, and standards organizations.